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The Call of Karen

Trumbus · 2020-07-16

Steam

CasualFree To PlayIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 16, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Call of Karen is a PC simulation comedy game about a 1950s suburban housewife whose home is being invaded by Cthulhu. Keep up appearances in the face of an unhappy marriage, ungrateful child, and eldritch madness!

2
playing now
79%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 18% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish

Player tags

FunnyIndieCasualComedyHorrorSimulationStory RichMultiplayerFree to PlayLovecraftian

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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